I don't understand these lines in @RDEliason's piece:
"The indictment does not allege any kind of agreement or coordination between Stone or the campaign and WikiLeaks. It portrays the campaign as primarily seeking information about actions that WikiLeaks was already planning."1/

"The only thing that ever happened was that they submitted a letter of intent about a possible project in Moscow that never went beyond that....no plans were ever made. There were no drafts. Nothing in the file."

Hmm.

Here are the architectural drawings 👇plus...

2. "Cohen told congressional investigators that ... the Trump company began to solicit designs from architects and discuss financing."

3. Oct 12, Sater "emailed Cohen. Their surrogates in Moscow would be meeting with Putin and a 'top deputy' just two days later, and they had financing: VTB Bank President and Chairman Andrey Kostin was on board to fund the project, Sater said in an email."buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…

"There is nothing in the regulations that prevent you from providing Mueller's report to Congress…the regs do not state that confidentiality means the report cannot be provided to Congress…Will you provide Mueller's report to Congress?"

“We concluded that they [the Saudis] were just not willing to listen." “They were given speciﬁc coordinates of targets that should not be struck and they continued to strike them. That struck me as a willful disregard of advice they were getting”

I recommend also reading @emptywheel’s analysis making significant points about Flynn’s registering as an agent of Turkey only in March 2017, still lying on those forms, and conspiracy in which he participated with Turkey agents lasting into those months.

On March 22, 2017, Trump reportedly asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Pompeo, in a private conversation, to intervene with Comey to get the FBI to stop investigating Flynn.

Around that same time in March 2017, “senior White House officials sounded out top intelligence officials about the possibility of intervening directly with Comey to encourage the FBI to drop its probe of Michael Flynn."

1 conspired with Russian official Torshin
2 Torshin met Don Jr at NRA dinner
3 Spanish prosecutor who gave wiretaps of other Torshin convos to FBI said, "Mr Trump’s son should be concerned"abcn.ws/2PvelC8

Here's more on #2 (Torshin meeting with Donald Trump Jr at NRA side event in 2016) thanks to best reporting on this by NBC News' @KenDilanianNBC@carolelee:

"The short version is Roger Stone and his longtime partner in shenanigans Michael Caputo both very clearly and indisputably perjured themselves during testimony before Congress." - @washmonthly's @BooMan23

1. Moscow Project deal lasted until into Summer 20162. Cohen discussed deal more than three times with candidate Trump3. Cohen briefed Trump family members4. Cohen took steps in contemplation of Trump’s travel to Russia

.@K8brannen and I are writing a piece for @just_security on the 'Major Takeaways' from Michael Cohen's plea re Moscow Trump Tower deal, and what it reveals more broadly about #TrumpRussia.

Here's our (@K8brannen and my) article breaking down some of the biggest and some of the hidden implications of Michael Cohen's guilty plea for Russia collusion investigation:

President Trump may also now be pinned, so that if Mueller (or a future prosecutor of a then-former president Trump) gets to interview Trump as follow-up under subpoena, the risks to DJT will be much higher.

2. Trump lawyers may have overly trusted their client's word (as happened with Ty Cobb). And maybe we should believe Trump's bombast that he played oversized role in directing written responses

Here's what I mean about Cobb and his strategy to have Trump cooperate with Mueller…

"At first there were eye rolls, but once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious," said a senior U.S. official involved in the process.

"Justice Department officials responded to the White House's request saying the review of Turkey's case against Gulen two years ago showed NO BASIS for his extradition and that no new evidence to justify it has emerged..."

Item 1: Looks like Whitaker served as something like an informal adviser to Trump campaign. National Co-Chair Sam Clovis said Whitaker was a “sounding board” for him when Clovis worked for the campaign.